Why didn't the Ostrogoths germanize Italy?

Did they even have any significant impact on Italian culture?

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we just came for holiday

1) probably because they were too few
2) because they only ruled relatively briefly, I think in the 6th century the Byzantines already conquered Italy again

because italians ere the chinese of the middle ages for numbers

What was your population at the time?

Because they ruled for an extremely short time period, they were few, there was little mixing between the locals and the conquerors due to religious reasons, and their culture was so pathetically inferior that it had no influence on the deeply Romanized population of Italy

because we latinized them. Same for the rest of Europe

>Same for the rest of Europe
Well Germanics did manage to turn Great Britain

germans got latinized themselves, see Charlemagne

Gothic BULL from Got(h)land here. It was to please the GÅDS.

>we

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It's rather them who have been Italianized in converting to Christianity, ect

Hey I'm from Östergötland so it's my damn right to we-wuzz in this mofo.

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Goths were already Christian but followed the Arian heresy as did most Germanic tribes

The original Götaland was the land along Göta älv though, fucking faker

>we wuz a bunch of savages who almost destroyed civilization

yikes

> what is ostrogothia

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my ancestor :)

If "civilization" is Rome then i want nothing to do with it. Bunch of pedo faggot degenerates
I'll stick to my barbarian snow tribes thank you very much

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Why wikipedia says the Goths are an Eastern Germanic tribe if they come from Sweden?

"the goth were an East Germanic people two of whose branches, the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, played an important role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire through the long series of Gothic Wars and in the emergence of Medieval Europe."


Ok, some missionaries went to their lands to convert them?

Because they were few and they were also romanboo.

then hand over your flag, the latin alphabet and plumbing

Because they migrated to eastern Europe from Gothland. Ignore the Geats in this thread btw, I am an ACTUAL GOTH BULL from GOT(H)LAND.

Yes, the Arian bishop Ulfilas was a Bishop who translated the Bible in the Gothic language and converted the Goths to Christianity during the fourth century

It would be more logical if they called
them Scandinavian Germanic or Northern Germanic.

Ok thanks.

it was really an army and their families that just put themselves on top of the existing structure. They did not have the numbers to change the culture and they definitely did not want to in the first place, a lot of the goths were born and raised within the empire in the Balkans by this point and most of the barbarian kingdoms had no intention of destroying the institutions that were there, the Ostrogoths in particular wanted to be seen a legitimate dynasty of the roman empire by both their subjects and their neighboring barbarian kingdoms.

It's a division based on language (North, West and East Germanic) really. East Germanics are supposed to having migrate to Poland and etc directly from Scandinavia; North Germanics stayed at home growing potatos and West Germanics were basically the ones standing in Germany proper.